Re: RARA-AVIS: A book to watch out for?

From: William Denton ( wtd@pobox.com)
Date: 30 Mar 2006


On 29 March 2006, Duane Spurlock wrote:

> Heard about a title coming out from Johns Hopkins press later this
> year-- UNLESS THE THREAT OF DEATH IS BEHIND THEM: HARD-BOILED FICTION
> AND FILM NOIR.

| Gutman cocked his head to the left and considered these questions.
| His eyes twinkled between puckered lids. Presently, he gave his
| genial answer: "Well, sir, there are other means of persuasion
| besides killing and threatening to kill."
| "Sure," Spade agreed, "but they're not much good unless the threat
| of death is behind them to hold the victim down. See what I mean?
| If you try anything I don't like I won't stand for it. I'll make
| it a matter of your having to call it off or kill me, knowing
| you can't afford to kill me."

-- THE MALTESE FALCON, chapter 18, "The Fall Guy"

-- 
William Denton : Toronto, Canada : www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org


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